The item is a housing for the first I/C computer. The only complete unit
built was delivered to the Air Force Materials Laboratory, Air Force
Systems Command. At the present time, its existence or location is unknown.

The computer was built in October, 1961, as part of an Air Force
contract. It was a serial binary fixed-point machine with operand word
length of 10 bits. It occupied 6.3 cubic inches and used 587 I/C's. An
equivalent machine was built using discrete active and passive components.
The I/C complement consisted of 392 Flip Flops, Type 2N209 163 Nor Gates,
Type 2N216, and 32 Logic Drivers, Type 213. A Separate Manual Control Unit
was provided along with an auxiliary paper tape unit for readout. The
computer could be programed as a desk calculator to preform addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division and square root. For additional
information, see the Final Report on Contract AF 33(600)4210-ASD/USAF,
Technical Report Nr. AFML-TR-64-386. In recent years, several of the AF
Material Lab personnel involved in this program were contracted about the
location of the computer. None could provide information leading to its
being located. Willis Adcock, Jack Kilby and Al Nemecek are knowledgeable
about the search.